{"id":46394,"date":"2017-01-03T06:31:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=46394"},"modified":"2017-01-03T06:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:01:46","slug":"not-judicial-redrafting-law-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/not-judicial-redrafting-law-sc","title":{"rendered":"There should not be judicial redrafting of law: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44317\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44317\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-report-jk-police-youths-killing\/law-10\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,193\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"law\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?fit=260%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44317 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=260%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"There should not be judicial redrafting of law: SC\" width=\"260\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/law.jpg?resize=135%2C100&amp;ssl=1 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There should not be judicial redrafting of law: SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No form of government is perfect but these imperfections cannot be remedied by &#8220;judicial redrafting&#8221; of a legislative provision, the Supreme Court, in its minority verdict, today said while holding that the term &#8220;his religion&#8221; meant the faith of candidates only in the election law.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-judge bench, in a majority 4:3 verdict, took a view that term included candidates, appealing for votes on the basis of religion, caste and other issues from politics and their agents and voters as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No form of government is perfect. The actual unfolding of democracy and the working of a democratic constitution may suffer from imperfections. But these imperfections cannot be attended to by an exercise of judicial redrafting of a legislative provision. Hence, we hold that there is no necessity for this court to take a view at variance with what has been laid down,&#8221; Justice D Y Chandrachud, who wrote the minority verdict, said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Chandrachud, writing for himself, Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit, said that Parliament has been cognisant of the provisions in question and the court should not resort to judicial redrafting of a statutory provision as no form of governance is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite this, the provision has remained untouched though several others have undergone a change. In the meantime, elections have been held successfully, governments have changed and majorities have been altered in the house of Indian democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is merit in ensuring a continuity of judicial precedent. The interpretation which has earlier been placed on Section 123(3) is correct and certainly does not suffer from manifest error,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing further, the minority verdict said that no form of government is perfect and the actual unfolding of democracy and the working of a democratic constitution may suffer from imperfections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But these imperfections cannot be attended to by an exercise of judicial redrafting of a legislative provision.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, we hold that there is no necessity for this court to take a view at variance with what has been laid down,&#8221; he said in his 55-page dissenting judgement.<\/p>\n<p>The minority verdict held that the earlier view that his religion meant the religion of candidates only did not suffer from any &#8220;manifest error&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No form of government is perfect but these imperfections cannot be remedied by &#8220;judicial redrafting&#8221; of a legislative provision, the Supreme Court, in its minority verdict, today said while holding that the term &#8220;his religion&#8221; meant the faith of candidates only in the election law. The seven-judge bench, in a majority 4:3 verdict, took a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":44317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,38377,117,80,47726],"class_list":["post-46394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-judicial-redrafting-of-law","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There should not be judicial redrafting of law: SC - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No form of government is perfect but these imperfections cannot be remedied by &quot;judicial redrafting&quot; of a legislative provision, the Supreme Court, in its - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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